Voith Paper signed a new contract with Embalagens de Polpa Moldada (EPM) in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, to supply pulp preparation equipment and decontamination systems so EPM can process OCC recycled paper and increase egg packaging output.
Green Bay Packaging CEO Will Kress described plans for a new state-of-the-art paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to replace the original 1940s mill. The project has cost over $500 million and is the largest single development project in Brown County history.
Green Bay Packaging awarded Voith a contract for a complete 300-inch testliner production line for a new PM 4 at its Green Bay, Wisconsin site, targeting start-up in early 2021. The package includes paper machine, effluent treatment, stock preparation and a seven-year roll management contract.
BillerudKorsnäs has begun trial runs of KM7, one of the world's largest board machines, at its Gruvön mill in Sweden. The total investment was later estimated at SEK 6.84 billion, including a major mill conversion.
Progroup AG held the ground-breaking for its third paper factory at Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, on August 10, 2018. The EUR 375 million plant with 750,000 tonnes annual capacity will create 140 direct jobs and use a new Voith paper machine.
Voith Paper North America agreed to supply a BlueLine stock preparation system for Copamex's Anáhuac mill in Mexico, which is being converted to containerboard production. The system is to start up in early 2019 and output 260,000 metric tons per year.
Voith Paper North America will supply a BlueLine stock preparation system for Copamex's mill in Anáhuac, Chihuahua, which is being converted to containerboard. The system is due to start up in early 2019 and output 260,000 metric tons per year.
Progroup AG has chosen Voith's XcelLine machine concept for its greenfield Propapier PM 3 plant in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, with a planned annual capacity of 750,000 tons, scheduled to open in 2020.
Propapier, part of Progroup AG, awarded machine builder Voith Paper the contract for a new PM3 containerboard paper machine in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, with production due in the second half of 2020. The greenfield project is part of a EUR 375 million investment.
Propapier awarded Voith Paper the contract for a new PM3 paper machine at a EUR 375 million greenfield containerboard plant in Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld. The machine is due to start in the second half of 2020 with an annual capacity of 750,000 tonnes and create about 140 direct jobs.
Voith Paper will supply Sun Paper with two new XcelLine papermaking lines, PM 36 for low-grammage high-grade Testliner and PM 37 for corrugating medium paper. Start-up is planned for July to September 2018, with capacities of 400,000 and 300,000 metric tons.